This Is A Good’un
Greetings all! It’s another post in the mostly pleasant realm of the Wacky Curmudgeon! Today I thought I’d share a simple grilled cheese breakfast sandwich recipe that I made this morning. I was pleasantly surprised at how tasty it was. I’ll let the recipe clue you in as to what it’s made of -
Process:
heat a 10” non-stick frying pan to approx. 320 degrees F. As it’s heating, add some oil, butter or pan ‘lubricant’ of your choice - I went with ghee which is an Indian clarified butter. Works great for what I’m about to do.
Also while the pan is heating up, scramble two eggs until all the whites are incorporated with the yolks.
Upon reaching the destination temperature, pour the eggs into the pan and let them sit in the pan for around 20-30 seconds. As you see the eggs form into a disc of sorts, pull the outer edges of the egg to the middle of the pan, from the top, right, bottom and left. The loose egg will spill out, that’s okay, just let that egg solidify too and then bring into the middle of the pan - the idea is to consolidate the scrambled egg into the footprint of a slice of bread.
Once most of the egg is scrambled and depending on how you like your eggs, you can either slide the eggs onto a plate or flip the still slightly runny top over onto the pan to have the eggs completely scrambled. It’s your call, some folks like their eggs runny and some don’t. For me, I lean toward non-runny.
Put the eggs aside and collect the ingredients for the rest of the sandwich: about 3 small, thin slices of yellow onion, two slices of American cheese, two thin slices of salami and two slices of the bread of your choice. I used a whole grain bread and the slices were on the large side - which leaves more room to put the goodies on!
Re-heat the pan to medium, approx. 300 degress F.
Butter one side of one of the pieces of bread and place the slice, butter-side-down into the pan.
Lay one of the slices of cheese on top of the bread.
Lay the slices of onion on top of the cheese and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
Lay the eggs on top of the cheese (the heat from the eggs will help melt the cheese.)
Lay the salami slices onto the eggs so as to cover as much of the sandwich area as possible.
Lay the other slice of cheese on top of the salami.
Squirt your desired amount of yellow mustard onto the inside of the second slice.
Place the second slice on top of your creation, mustard-side-down.
Carefully spread butter on the outside of the second piece of bread. You can substitute with ghee or even mayo!
Once the cheese on the bottom has melted and the bottom slice is browned to your liking (just lift the sandwich a spatual high enough to allow you to see the color on the bottom), it’s time to flip the sandwich.
FLIPPING THE SANDWICH: this takes a bit of practice to get good at. That being said, you can get a good start by observing the following guidelines:
Make sure any cheese you have is well-melted, especially any cheese near the bottom slice - this will help keep the contents of the sandwich in line as it’s being flipped.
Place your spatula (preferably use a spatula that is on the thin side so it’s girth won’t interfere with the flipping process) underneath the sandwich on the diagonal - from one corner to the other
Lift the sandwich up about 2-3 inches about the pan.
Visualize the successful flipping of the sandwich.
Quickly turn your wrist over - focusing on the idea of placing the un-toasted side of the sandwich onto the pan. This should be done quickly and with confidence.
NOTE: if the innards of the sandwich go flying out, please don’t fret - just use your spatula and perhaps a fork to pick up the pieces and slide them back into the sandwich.
Pat yourself on the back for even trying this and let the sandwich grill on the second side until it is the correct amount of brown - your call. Also check to see that the cheese has melted on this side.
Once you’re satisfied with the doneness of your munchy morsel, place the sandwich on a cutting board and let it cool for about 3-5 minutes.
Cut your bad boy in any fashion you see fit - I’m a diagonal kinda guy and enjoy! Here’s a pic:
Yum!
Enjoy and cheers!
